Events

Abir Elfarkouchi ( Conduit lab) will defend her PhD thesis: Structural Basis of Drosophila CM1 Domain Regulation during Cell Division The jury will be composed of: Jordan Raff, Professeur d'université, Rapporteur…

Invited by the Institut Jacques Monod, Prof Jordan Raff, (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford) will present an Institut Jacques Monod lecture: How do cells build complicated…

Registration for DIF Day 2026 is now open! Visit the registration website to sign up: https://sites.google.com/view/dif2026/accueil_2026?authuser=0

Invited by the Ladoux/Mege lab, Bram Hoogland (Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, Netherlands) will present an Institut Jacques Monod seminar on the theme: Data-Driven Inference of Cell Migration and Polarity Dynamics Abstract:…

Invited by the Conduit lab, Claudia Brito (Center for Genomic Regulation (CRG, Barcelona), incoming CNRS ATIP Group Leader, Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC), Paris-Saclay) will present an…

Invited by the Institut Jacques Monod, Silvia Torchio (Fate and plasticity of epithelial stem cells Lab, Developmental Biology and Genetics Unit (UMR3215/U934), Institut Curie) will present a Paris Postdoc Seminar…

Myriam Zheng (Palancade lab) will defens her PhD thesis: Unraveling the mechanisms of DNA:RNA hybrid genotoxicity by profiling mutational landscapes The defense will take place in English and the jury…

Invited by the Ribes/Nedelec, Olivier Pourquié (Frank Burr Mallory Professor of Pathology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital; Professor of Genetics, Harvard Medical School) will present an Institut Jacques Monod seminar on…

Invited by the Dumont, lab Prof. Omaya Dudin (Dpt. Biochemistry, University of Geneva) will present an Institut Jacques Monod seminar on the theme: Exploring multicellular developmental programs at the root…

Camil Mirdass (Ribes / Nedelec Lab) wil defend his PhD thesis: Régulation mécanique de la morphogenèse du neuroépithélium humain par le facteur de transcription PAX3 The jury will be composed…

The Conférence Jacques Monod " The mechanistic and evolutionary basis of programmed DNA elimination" will take place from Monday, September 21, 2026toFriday, September 25, 2026 in Roscoff (Bretagne, France).  Abstracts submission…

Rebekah Ricquebourg (Konstantinides Lab ) will defend her PhD thesis: Spatial factors affect temporal patterning of neuronal stem cells to regulate neuronal diversity The jury will be composed of: Ariane…

Invited by the Konstantinides Lab, Baptiste Libé Philippot will present an Institut Jacques Monod seminar on the theme: Cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying human neuronal and circuit evolution Abstract: Baptiste…

Invited by the Courtier,  Pr. Artyom Kopp (Department of Evolution and Ecology, University of California Davis) will present an Institut Jacques Monod on the theme: The Drosophila sex comb as…

Angélique David (Greenberg Lab) will defend  her PhD thesis: Dissecting the interplay between DNA and H3K4 methylation in mammalian pluripotency and differentiation The jury will be composed of: Christa BUECKER,…

Invited by the Greenberg lab, Christa Buecker (Associate Professor at Max Perutz Labs, University Vienna will present an Institut Jacques Monod seminar on the theme: Building to understand: Enhancer-Promoter Communication…

Sandra Carvalho (Guichet Lab) will defend her PhD thesis: Organisation, dynamique et rôle du cytosquelette d’actine lors de l’intercalation cellulaire en 3D au cours de la morphogenèse du système trachéal…

Invited by the Ladoux/Mege, Nikta Fakhri (Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) ) will present an Institut Jacques Monod seminar on the theme: Thermodynamics of collective behavior Abstract: Living systems are…

Lucas Anger ( Ladoux/Mège lab) will defend his PhD thesis: Intercellular stress invariants and fluctuations in epithelial mechanical homeostasis The defense will take place in English and the jury will…

Ranjith Kumar Chilupuri (Ladoux/Mege lab) will denfend his PhD defense thesis: Hydraulic Fractures in Epithelia: From Mechanisms of Propagation to Tissue Morphogenesis The jury will be composed of: Pierre NASSOY…

Camille Bagès ( Romet-Lemonne/Jégou lab) will defend her PhD thesis: Defining and identifying the identities of single actin filaments The defense will take place in English and the jury will be…

Invited by the Ribes/Nedelec, Chloé Roffay (Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP)) will present an Institut Jacques Monod seminar on the theme: Uncovering the forces driving fate and form of amnion…

Invited by the Institut Jacques Monod, Sophie Peron ( Institut Imagine, Team somatic mosaicism in neurodevelopment and disease, Paris) will present a Paris Postdoc seminar on the theme: Coordination between…

The Institut Jacques Monod and the Epigenetics and Cell Fate Centre are delighted to host a delegation from the School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua University (Beijing, China) on October 8th…

The first Cytoskeleton club meeting of the 2026-2027 season will take place on Wednesday, October 14th: Manuel Thery ( IPGG, ESPCI) will present "Uncoupling microtubules stability, lifetime and post-translational modifications"…

The International symposium - Division and Cycling Across Biological Scales will take place on October 19th-23rd and will broadly cover various aspects of the cell cycle and cell division, such as…

Inaara Kassamaly (Romet-Lemonne/Jégou Lab) will defend her PhD thesis: Disassembly of young ADP·Pi actin filaments by cofilin, studied using microfluidics The jury will, be composed of: Rapportrices : Julie Plastino,…

Wouter Kools (Romet-Lemonne/Jégou lab) will defend his PhD thesis: The interplay between the motor activity of myosin-X and the architecture and dynamics of the actin cytoskeleton The jury will be…

Invited by the Guichet lab, Jens Januschke ( Faculty of Life at the University of Dundee, Scotland, UK) will present an Institut Jacques Monod on the theme: When size determines…

Invited by the Institut Jacques Monod, Alberto de la Iglesia, Ph.D. Institut Cochin (Inserm U1016 - CNRS UMR8104 - Université Paris Cité) Dr. Julie Cocquet Group "Epigenetics & Spermatogenesis", part…

Invited by the Institut Jacques Monod et Epigenetic and Cell Fate Centre, Gilles Degremont (Pôle Universitaire d’Innovation Valocité Université Paris Cité) will present an Institut Jacques Monod seminar on the…

Invited by the Konstantinides lab, Philipp Brand (Group leader of the Evolutionary Neuroscience and Behavior Group, Max Planck Institute for Brain Research): Behavioral evolution in a complex world: From environment…

Epigenome editing is a rapidly emerging field that has the potential to revolutionise genomic medicine by offering new ways to precisely program gene expression and treat a range of diseases.…

General information The Paris Cytoskeleton Day is a scientific one-day symposium open to all types of cytoskeletal components and all types of approaches. This year is the 6th edition. It will…